Parts Used: Bark, leaves, rind, green nut. Solvents: Alcohol, water. Bodily Influence: Vermifuge, Tonic. Uses: Materially, Scrofula has had harmonious results with 1 cup of the leaves boiled in 1 quart of water, made fresh daily and used often, with honey. This should be continued for several months. The dry leaves may be used when the green cannot be had. A strong tincture of the leaves and nuts is highly extolled as a remedy in the treatment of bilious and cramp colic.
BLACK WALNUT Juglans nigra, L.( Vishaya Schkolla, Moscow, 1963)
Dose: 1 – 2 teaspoonfuls every twenty or thirty minutes until relieved. Also a decoction as a vermifuge is effective. The rind of the green fruit removes ringworms, tetter, and is given in diphtheria. The distilled fresh walnuts in spirit alcohol will calm hysteria, cerebral and pregnant vomiting.
The Black walnut is one of the foods rich in manganese, important for nerves, brain and cartilage. Nutritionally, the Missouri Black walnut is of high manganese content. All nut fruits should be fresh, as rancid oil is detrimental.
One teaspoonful of the inner bark or leaves and rind cut small or granulated to 1 cup of boiling water. Drink 1 – 4 cups a day often, a large mouthful at a time. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture of leaves and of rind of green fruits— Acne, Anus( burning in), Auxiliary glands( suppuration of), Chancre, Ecthyma, Eyes( pain over), Favus, Flatulence, Headache, Herpes, Herpes preputialis, Levitation( sensation of), Menorrhagia, Purpura, Ringworm, Scurvy, Spleen( pain in), Syphilis. Russian Experience: Black walnut is known in Russia by the common name of Greek nut( Juglan regia) which grows in Kaukaz and Middle Asia of Russia. Uses: Long before vitamins were discovered Folk Medicine knew by experience and results that botanical treatment was reliable.
In Russia they prepared a walnut jam in a way that 90 per cent of the vitamins were still intact. This pleasing food as body repairing material is now known to contain a rich supply of Vitamin C, carotin and many important minerals. As a tea( external and internal) in home medical use for scrofula, ulcers, wounds, gargle and rickets. Externally: Since the seventeenth century Russian military hospitals have used this well-established Folk Medicine for clearing and quick healing medication of wounds and ulcers. Now clinically it is used for many kinds of skin diseases, especially tuberculosis. Indian and Pakistan Experience: By the local Indian name Akhort or Akshot, the Black walnut would be a stranger to North Americans. Some of the uses are familiar, with advantageous additions. Bark: Astringent, Anthelmintic, Detergent, Lactifuge. Successfully used as a bark decoction in skin diseases. Leaves: Astringent, Alterative, Tonic, Detergent. A decoction of the leaves is specific in Scrofulous,